A Palace Sold for Scrap - Rycote, Thame, Oxfordshire
Episode 6 · 2001-02-11
- Documentary
- Mystery
Episode overview
The owners of Rycote House live in a lovely converted stable block, but they believe that the extremely grand house that once stood on the property and which hosted Tudor royalty burned down in 1745, and they want Time Team to investigate. In the trenches, no evidence of burning is found, but it seems that grand houses were built and rebuilt on the site from the 14th century through the Georgian era. Finds include a drainage tunnel dating from Capability Brown's landscaping work on the property. Historian Robin Bush returns from the Bodelian Library with an extraordinary catalogue from 1807, which details the sale of the grand house room by room. In nearby Thane, a townhouse contains a fireplace and doorways that possibly come from the sale. Food Historian Ivan Day cooks and serves sweetmeats and hippocras. Palace expert Simon Thurley joins the Team.
50 minutes
Season 8 episodes
1. An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery - Normanton, Lincolnshire2001-01-07
2. The Man Who Bought a Castle - Alderton, Northamptonshire2001-01-14
3. The Celtic Spring - Llygadwy, Powys2001-01-21
4. A Waltham Villa - Waltham Field, Whittington, Gloucestershire2001-01-28
5. The Lost Viaduct - Blaenavon, Torfaen2001-02-04
6. A Palace Sold for Scrap - Rycote, Thame, Oxfordshire2001-02-11
7. An Iron-Age Roundhouse - Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire2001-02-18
8. The Bone Caves - Alveston, Gloucestershire2001-02-25
9. The Inter-City Villa - Basildon, Berkshire2001-03-04
10. Holy Island - Lindisfarne, Northumberland2001-03-11
11. The Leaning Tower of Bridgnorth - Bridgnorth, Shropshire2001-03-18
12. Three Tales of Canterbury - Canterbury, Kent2001-03-25
13. The Leper Hospital - Winchester, Hampshire2001-04-01
